Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-06-10

ana on the inquire OF MauOilne, as she
stood there in her white flannel dress.
peeping into the cavernous depths OF
n market wagon, while the same lank
Arkansan flourished his whip over the
straight back OF the patient, unoffend-
ing mules.
So had she stood on that summer
morning months before when Dens-
low had seen her for the first time,
and he turned away sick at heart,
thinking how she was jnst as far
away from him now as then, even
though the law had made her his
property. His property, indeed!
And he smiled grimly as he thought
of any man being able to control that
high-spirited, strong willed, imperious
girl.
"She has not the slightest idea of
what love is" he sighed. "She is ut
terlv cold and emotionless, save where
her sympathy is temporarily awak-
ened. Even / tire her now that | can
10 longer be deemed an invalid"
"Thar's two as good cookin' hens
rs we ever seed in yer life, and haint
nary one on uni blind. / lowed we
wouldn't want UNI eff they wuz, and ef
they he'd been l wouldn't q brung
UNI"
There was a rattle of silver coins, a
crack of the long-lashed whip and %
creak OF the mountain break, and the
market wagon started on, and Mad
oline turned her back INTO the porch
and vanished from her husband s
sight.
He sat down thinking of the changes
that had been wrought since that first
morning so long ago. Then he had
been an invalid waiting .or his coffin,
u dying man eking out a few days.
now he was strong and comparative
ly WELL He looked at the dumbbells
this little physicians prescrIption),
and he felt of his well-muscled arms,
and threw back his shoulders and let
the bracing March air into his lungs,
and was glad that he had lived.
"Ah, WE'LL" he sighed, man can't
have every thing in tins world.
Let me be thankful for what have"
He went away with u heavy heart.
Madeline smiinely gave HIM her hand
at parting, and it was all over.
He had come out of the sweetest
dream of his life with seemingly every
thing to make him happy, health IN q
fair degree, money, q good appetite,
and friends in his old home glad to
welcome him back from the border
land of Death, but man will be an I'M
grateful creature to the end of the
world, ard he cursed his fate and
sighed for the graceful figure and the
bright, sunny face of one woman, when
the world was full of women, each
ready to be taken from the home
hearth, as q flower is waiting to be
plucked from the multitude OF the I'M
chosen.
But in modern parlance HE want
ed the earth" and it was very
small part of it's dust embodied in the
sweetness and charm of little Mado-
line, that seemed so desirable 20 him.
Months passed slowly enough. He
had expected to be notified in due, le-
gal form that his wife wished to be
separated from him, and was puzzled
to know why such notification did
not make it's appearance.
He determined to make her hand
some provision when the time came,
and all the old interest in business
having returned with his health, he be-
came a most assidous man of bust
ness, forming stock companies, work
ing mines, buying and selling, and ne
gotiating and trying in all this to lose
sense OF the small pain Juggling away
at his big unsophisticated heart.
He Travelled about a good deal at
that time. and at last business brought
him to Chicago. and his arrival was
duly chroncled.
He knew this had been Madoline's
home at one time, but he had heard
no word from her all this while, and
he wondered ii she were still at those
blessed springs, or whether she were
well and happy, and, indeed, he won
dered all things about her, for she waa
continually in his thoughts.
As he came int } the hotel one after
noon and was about to step into the
elevator, a lady who had been for
sometime waiting ard Watching from
the reception-room, stepped forward
and laid little hand on his arm. He
looked down, and there smiling up at
him. half afraid of the reception she
might get, stood the wife he had Left
down III Arkansas.
You know how dim it Is in that lit
tie corner by the elevator, and no one
was passing down the stairs just at
the time to see the tall man stoOp
down and gather the little woman in
his arms and kiss the pretty little
mouth, and there was the deserted re-
Ceptionroom and lie drew her in there
and together they sat down on the So
ia and looked at each other.
you do love me yet, dou't our"
she asked, her eyes full OF tears. IT
don't want any divorce. l want to
live with yoa always, may H."
And she looked sopitiful and so low
able and so altogether womanly that
he was OH the point of repeating the
idiocy of which he had been guilty in
the hail, when he was prevented by
the entrance OF the liveried watch
man.
"Will you come home with me?"
asked Madeline. My carriage is at
the door" And before they reached
her iather's home on Michigan avenue
they were bothin the most utter state
OF content.
There is one disease that starving
will not cure" said Denslow to his
tather-in-law that evening, "and it
seems that Madeline agrees with me.
1t Is a disease OF the heart called
love"
After that they had their Wedding
tour and the wedding reception and
were quite "olo married folks" before